>Dos any one understand me ?
Yes I do!
You comparaison is very signifiant for me, even if I don't feel the soft
breeze and the sweet aromas of flowers in a virtual world.
In France there was one postman called Le facteur Marechal (if my memorie
is good). He spent his whole life building a strange and big palace with
stones and sand he picked on the ground while he was doing his mail
delivery.
I am telling this little story to go in your idea of the time in the
creation of a virtual world and also of the possible independance of the
creator (but that's another story)
VR could may be compared (or virtual creators could inspire themself) to
something between architecture and gardenning... Architecture because you
start with an empty space (even if you must be careful of the
buildings/flats next to you) and gardenning because it grows up and could
evolute in time. Both of them of course for the multiple points of view of
the "visitor".
I found something else in VR there is not in theses arts: the laws of
nature like gravity could be abolished, you can create a building that
would fall in reality...
Litterature is also a great beginning for virtual world: for example Jorge
Luis Borges describe very well this idea of infinite points of view and
Lovecraft is also interesting for trying to describe buildings that defy
the law of gravity.
Now I think there are three majors problems for VR creations:
- first of all is of course is the heavy technologie involved in it: wich
could very distrubing for the artist creativity
- the second problem is the speed: would people take time to appreciate, or
would a VR visit would become a high speed zapping around (like a crazy
websurfing!)
- the third problem is more insidious: a large part of art is to show some
things and to hide others: the people out of screen in a movie, the border
of a picture and so on: the virtual world (with the multiple points of
view) give the impression to be able to show everything; this could very
castrating for the imagination of the visitors...
I wonder if you all feel concerned about theses problems...
Sorry for my weak english,
hello from the country of cheeses and nuclear testing (sadly not yet virtual!)
Vincent Fournout.
Paris, France.